 Hello everyone and welcome back to another Ethan Journal video. As you can see I have a bit of a different background today and that is because we are going to be taking a look at Apple's old iWeb application. Now if you don't know what iWeb is it's essentially back in the early 2000s Apple made a application for Macs that came out with iLife basically allowing anybody to build their own website. This came out in the time before Facebook and Twitter existed and before people would have online profiles on those platforms but background the early 2000s most people would just have their own website it was more of a more convenient thing to do and iWeb is what allowed people that had Macs to create their website pretty much for free you could design your website but then you had to pay for mobile me which think of it like the really early version of iCloud because that's essentially what iCloud turned into because it went from dot mac slash mobile me to iCloud and that's where we are today and mobile me was just like iCloud but with way less features other than that in today's video we are going to be taking a look at iWeb trying to design a new website for my website ethnerman.com and just kind of getting nostalgic and seeing what we can build with iWeb and kind of exploring the old features and seeing if we can build a okay looking somewhat modern website without further ado let's get into the video. All right everyone so here we are back at the Power Mac G5 which is the same one that we used for the Marble Blast video a few weeks earlier. Now first thing we're going to do is go down here and click on iWeb. iWeb changed over the years a little bit but as you can see i do actually have a website in here right now this is my ethnerman.com page that i built when before i switched over and started working in my WordPress site which is still currently up but i want to change it and make the design look a lot better but this is what i was doing before that. As you can see let's just take a tour of this website to kind of show you guys what iWeb websites mostly looked like so here you have the homepage and essentially you just create text boxes down here these are the different box types that you can turn into images you've got text boxes you can change your theme along here with the task bar you had all these widgets that you could add in like embedding a YouTube video getting Google AdSense money so you could place advertisements on your website and make money off of that you can embed Google Maps iSight photo and iSight video essentially that allowed you to take your webcam which back in the day i apple made the iSight camera allowed you to take that camera and record photos and videos that you could just have right on your site countdown timer which i have right here an rss feed and then an html snippet like you can embed like an html or another website over here you have your page list so this here is your website giving you information like i have this published to a local folder on the computer um and i have my information here and then here's the home page is a page now you could also add blogs to your website and podcasts so on this i had a blog set up here in this was my blog page so um here you can see like welcome to my blog um and i had one of my photography images here along with some information there and then here's where you would add entries um which i have none because i ended up like scrapping this project earlier on and then you have your archive of all of your posts there um then you have your about now these pages are actually all created you don't just get an about page but when you go down to add pages there are templates here as you can see that you could use to create them but all of these pages i just made with the blank template and just customize them myself so here you have my about page that i designed which is pretty simple i went with the gill sands font which i thought looked pretty cool and it makes the old website looks somewhat modern and you have my parodies page which i was just gonna like make parody products on and then downloads here um and which i have nothing there either so that's essentially a rundown of this website and what am i going to try to do in this video is try to make this website uh look pretty modern it kind of already does look modern like if you click here and you go to visit it'll actually open up ten four fox which is the web browser that i use on here um it'll actually open up that local folder and load in the html elements um right on to here and this is what the website looks like so um i opened it up as you can see it's loading it from a local folder and this is the site that we just designed over an iweb as you can see all the elements are loading in and because it's like the old website editor it's not going to scale to your screen um and because it's an old website it's made with that center column effect so it's not going to use up your whole screen and then you can go to like the different pages that we just saw like here's the blog here's the about here's the parodies here's the downloads and they all load up here with that menu bar and sadly the header does not uh match on every single page i would need to add this ethnerman.com text to every single page in the header it doesn't automatically move your header with the site like most modern web editors do um and then you can see you have the countdown timer right there so that's pretty much what the site will look like when it comes out and this is actually the type of theme i used was the black theme so everything is going to be dark if this is the white theme which is identical to it it just it has a white background um so we can go back here and work on let's try to create a blog page so if we go here and we go to entries we can add an entry right here so i'm going to change this to ethnerman um actually no i would actually have to change this to what the blog title is as far as i know um let's think let's do um welcome to my i website and i'm using an old apple keyboard which is why it's kind of hard to type and then we can change this image so i actually have here some folder here with some of my own artwork um this is something i have through uh bricklink so let's put this thing in here um i rendered that out of legos on the bricklink uh lego studio so it turned out pretty cool um and then we can do like this and say photo of lego time machine because i don't know how to spell delorean but that's okay saturday may 14 2022 so it has the correct date but that's just because the computer set that correctly and then i can edit here and say welcome to my website i do not like this keyboard welcome to my i website this is my first blog post made during a video and then that's my first entry here and watch how simple it is so you would actually cook this up to fdp if you're not hosting through mobile me but back in the day what apple wanted you to do was upload it through mobile me so you would make your website through apple's mobile me cloud service and you'd get so much storage that you would have through i through your i disk which is what apple called like i cloud storage it was called i disk um and you'd upload it through mobile me but if you hosted it through someone other than apple you could upload it via ftp or what i'm doing is just doing it as a local folder which works okay so i'm going to go this and publish my site so we can go check out what the entry looked like okay so now you're gonna see it says visit site now it'll load it up and here's the home page now if we go over to blog now you will see it'll have the blog post and here's the blog post you can see the image loaded in fine we can see everything that we just added and the dates there and everything which works pretty nicely so now let's head back to the home page and see about creating a podcast so we can go here and add podcast um which probably should go to the black theme so it's uh it's matches with the site um and it'll load in after just a little bit because this isn't going to do what the blog does it's going to create this category with your podcast entries and then archive um so as you can see there's the podcast we have to change all these images we can go to my podcast we could do welcome to the rhyman report podcast because that's where my podcast is that i'm currently working on starting the rhyman report and let's grab another image here um for my drive let's do for now let's do this wisconsin home artwork oh i forgot that's transparent so yeah it does use pngs and pngs will be transparent which makes sense but because the text in there is black that was not the best idea um so what we could try to do is let's just do this apple macintosh which is another thing that i got from bricklink uh here and that'll load in like that and you can see that there's this effect here let's say i don't want it to be reflective at the bottom well we can fix that by going down here to the inspector and then this little inspector window pops up now here we can go over to this and we can turn off the reflection so this is for blocks and images graphic inspector um so we can go down here and turn off the reflection we can also add a shadow and we can make this white so we could actually see it and then you can see we have a little white we added a white shadow to the image but let's just turn that off for now so that it looks nice and clean here on the image um and then you can subscribe with apple podcast right there and then you can search your podcast so if you go to the entry now uh over to entries which might take a second to load because it's still creating all these libraries um for the site because again this will mostly be hosted through um mobile me um so you can delete that entry and add a new one so we can do um welcome and then you would have your you would upload your audio file here you'd have your information here and because we're recording a video i'm actually actually going to do that but when this website does end up going live i will end up making another video talking about getting this website live connected to my domain but that's not going to be in this video it's probably going to be next week's video but other than that that has been my tour of iweb i'm hopefully going to do a video that dives more into the history of iweb this is more just exploring iweb and seeing it i'm also going to try eventually to come up with a video looking at my really old iwebsites that i have um which i sadly cannot include in this video because i have to actually find the laptop that they're on but other than that i would like to say say thank you guys for watching this video if you like to support me you can head over to patreon.com slash ethans journal and subscribe to end of my tears as little as one dollar a month you can get extra videos and see these videos sooner um other than that have a good history day and goodbye